Lähetän

Lähetän is the first-person singular present indicative form of the Finnish verb lähettää, meaning to send or to dispatch. It indicates that the speaker is performing the action of sending at the present moment or is describing a plan to send something.

The form is used in everyday statements about sending letters, messages, goods, or signals. For example, lähetän kirjeen huomenna would translate to “I will send a letter tomorrow.” Finnish verbs in this paradigm use a consistent set of endings, so lähetän follows the pattern of minä (I) with the ending -n, while other persons have corresponding endings (läheset, lähettää, etc.).

Related forms include sinä lähetät (you send) and hän lähettää (he/she sends). The past tense is lähetti (he/she sent), and the passive form is lähetetään (it is/will be sent). The verb can also appear in compound tenses with auxiliary verbs, and its infinitive is lähettää.

Lähettää is closely connected to the nouns lähete (dispatch, shipment) and lähetys (sending, transmission, also used for religious missions or broadcast programs). These related words share the same root and describe the act or result of sending in different contexts.

Etymology generally links lähettää to the root related to sending or dispatch, with lähetys as a common nominal form. In Finnish, the verb covers a broad range of sending activities—from mail and messages to signals and goods—without a separate continuous aspect, as present-tense forms convey both immediate action and planned future sending.